Safety-tread horseshoe.



PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

B. BRAUN.

SAFETY TREAD HORSESHOE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11, 1903.

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Inventor WWW lhnino Srarns katented February 28, 1905.

BERNHARD BRAUN, 0F BROOKLYN, NETV YORK.

SAFETY TWEAD MOWSESl lOlE.

SLPJEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,56 F, dated February 28, 1905.

Application filed April 11, 1903. Se1ia1N0-15Z,212.

To a whom it 71mg concern.

Be it known that I, BERN'HARD BRAUN, a subject of the Emperor of (-lrermany, residing in Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Safety-Tread Horseshoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

h l y invention relates to a safety-trezul horseshoe; and its object has been to provide one which shall have the desirable qualities of du rability, cheapness, and e'l'liciency; and it consists of the combinations and parts hereinafter more iarticularly described.

In the drawings representing one form of my invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. l on line 1/ and Fig. 3 is a detail View of the detachable spurs for use in slippery weather.

In the drawings, 1 represents the shoe proper of conventional shape, which may be made of iron, steel, or any other suitable material. The upper side of the shoe is provided with the usual projecting lugs 2 and 3 for the purpose of adjustment to the foot of the animal. A strengtheiling-bar 12 is formed adjacent to the heels of the shoe and serves to strengthen the shoe, as well as to assist in retaining the pad 10, presently to bedescribed. Upon thelower or tread surface of the shoe and along the periphery thereof is a channel or recess 4t, adapted to receive some safety-tread material, such as the hempen rope (Shown in the drawings.) A second or auxiliary channel is disposed adjacent to the inner part of the channel already described and concentric thereto. Suitable nail-holes (i extend through the shoe into the outer channel only, and the shoe is provided at the ends or heels with suitable recesses 7, preferably screw-threaded to receive the detachable spurs 8, which will be found useful on icy pavements to prevent slipping. The nail-holes are so arranged that when the nails are inserted the heads are entirely within the channel containing the softtread material and are thus removed from the trezul-surface of the shoe. Byusing the same channel for both the soft-tread material and the nails the whole available surface of the lshoe may be utilized and a maximum efiieiency obtained. I

.llhe safcty-trmul material may be held in place by any suitable means" such, for instance, as the spurs or projections El, which engage between the strands oi the coil of hemp. in Winter snow, ice, &c., are very apt to become packed between the sides-of a horses shoe and interferes with the safety qualities of anyshoe. To prcvcntthis, l provide a rubber or cork packing ll), which fits within the arms of the shoe at the heels and is held in place by suitable spikes ll. The cork protecting-pad 10 is placed below the cross-bar 12, which serves as a strengthening device. The spurs 8 may be attached to the shoe by anysuitable means as, for instance, by screwing them in, as indicated in the drawings. W here this is done it will be convenient to provide the heads thereof with. a flat portion 13, which may be readily engaged by a wrench or other implement and readily screwed home.

The location of the pad 10 in Figs. 1 and 2 close to the heels of the shoe and the detachable spurs or calks is important, for the reason that the snow, ice, sand, or other material plowed up and thrown forward by the calks is prevented from entering between the sides of the shoe, while the space in front of the pad and cross-bar is left open, so that the for comfort of the animal or for col'ivcnient examination of the hoof.

it is obvious that many modifications and changes may be made in my invention without departing from the spirit thereof, and I. do not limit myself to the particular structure shown; but

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by lactters Patent, is-

1. in a safety-tread horseshoe having suitable channels therein, a safety-tread material partly within one of said channels and hold in place by suitable spurs or projections, nailholes extending through said shoe into one of said channels, a strengthening-lntr adjacent to the heels of said shoe, tlOhELCl'lttlJlt) calks on said heels, a "free space in front of said bar, a safety pad or cushion adjacent to the heels of hoof need not be too closely conlined either safety pad or cushion adjacent to said heels and the shoe and means for holding said cushion, substantially as described.

2. In a safety-tread horseshoe having suitable channels therein, a safety-tread material partly within one of said channels and held in place by suitable spurs or projections, nailholes extending through said shoe into one of said channels, a cross-bar located at the rear part of the shoe, a free space at the forward part of the shoe, detachable calks on the heels of said shoe, a safety pad or cushion at the rear of the shoe and means for holding the said pad, substantially as described.

3. In a safety-tread horseshoe having suitable channels therein, a safety-tread material partly Within one of said channels and held in place by suitable spurs or projections, nailholes extending through said shoe into one of said channels, a cross-bar located at the rear part of the shoe, a free space formed by the front and side portions of the shoe and the cross-bar, calks on the heels of said shoe, a safety-pad adjacent to said calks and means for holding said pad, substantially as described.

I. In a safety-tread horseshoe having suitable channels therein, a safety-tread material partly within one of said channels and held in place by suitable spurs or projections, nailholes extending through said shoe into one of said channels, a cross-bar at the rear part of said shoe, a free space formed by the front and side portions of said shoe together with the said cross-bar, calks on the heels of said shoe, a pad or cushion at the rear of the bar ad jacent to the calks and means for securing said pad or cushion, substantially as described.

5. In a safety-tread horseshoe having suitable channeled portions, a safety-tread material partly Within one of said channeled portions, and held in place by suitable means, nailholes through said shoe extending into one of the channeled portions, a cross-bar connecting the rear portions of said shoe, a free space formed by the front and side portions and the cross-bar, calks on the heels of said shoe, a

retained in position by the said bar, the rear of said shoe and the inwardly-projecting heels of said shoe together with spurs on said bar and sides of said shoe, substantially as described.

6. In a safety-tread horseshoe having suitable channels therein, a strengthening-bar adjacent to the heels of the shoe, a safety-tread material partly within one of said channels and held in place by suitable spurs or projections, nail holes extending through said shoe 1nto one of said channels, detachable CfilkS l secured to the heels of said shoe, a safety pad or cushion adjacent to said calks at the heels of the shoe, means consisting of said cross-bar and spurs thereon and on the sides of the shoe for holdingsaid pad, substantially as described.

7. In asafety-tread horseshoe, channels substantially parallel with the periphery of the front portion thereof, a safety-tread material partly within one of said channels and held in place by suitable spurs or projections, nailholes extending through said shoe into one of said channels, a strengthening cross-bar, near the heels of said shoe, detachable calks on said heels, a safety pad or cushion adjacent to said calks and means consisting of the cross-bar and spurs on the sides of the shoe and on the cross-bar for holding said pad or cushion, substantially as described.

8. In a safety-tread horseshoe having channels therein, a safety-tread material partly within one of said channels and with suitable holding means, nail-holes extending through said shoe into one of said channels, a cross-bar adjacent to the heels of said shoe, a free space between the front and sides of the shoe and the said cross-bar, detachable calks on the heels of said shoe, a safety pad or cushion adjacent to said heels and said calks, and means consisting of the cross-bar and spurs on said bar and the sides of the shoe for holding said pad, substantially as described.

9. A safety-tread horseshoe comprising a frame, nail-holes through said shoe a peripherally-disposed cushion secured in the forward part of said frame, a bar formed integral with said frame connecting the rear portions thereof, an opening through said shoe bounded by the forward portion of the shoe and by said bar, calks at the rear of said frame, a pad or cushion forward of and adjacent to said calks, and means for securing said pad or cushion, substantially as described.

10. A safety-tread horseshoe comprising a U-shaped frame having a strengthening crossbar, nail-holes through said shoe, a peripherally-disposed cushion in said frame, a free space bounded by the said frame and said bar, calks on the heels of the shoe, a safety pad or cushion at the rear of the shoe forward of said calks and means for securing said pad or cushion, substantially as described.

-In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. I V

BERNHARI) BRAUN. IVitnesses:

CLIFFORD E. DUNN,- Ronun'r VALENTINE MA'ri-mws. 

